I hadn’t seen The Bubble yet. It’s nice to see at least a few progressives are able to laugh at themselves. Precious few who will soon be beaten into submission by their peers. I caught the news this morning and there was some music award show last night where the hosts and performers piled on Trump et al. It’s all so predictable and trite. Knee jerk reaction from the usual suspects every damn time a conservative holds office. Trump may be the one able to make them look like fools although that’s not how it will be reported.

I’ve been on the road between my conference, visiting friends and now spending the day at my mom’s house. I’ve been on the go for the past 4 days and the plan today is coffee, visit with my cousin Cathy and lunch at a diner in town. R + R before driving 4 hours back to Maine tomorrow.

Made it back from New York last night. Great show, but exhausting. We got about 5 hours of sleep a night, if that. Spent a lot of time wandering around the city, top of the Empire State Building, etc. Hoping to take it easy today.

We walked by the theater, but tickets are supposed to be really hard to get. We did see the Alexander Hamilton exhibit at the NY public library. Everybody was really friendly. We were even able to get around on the subways. We were in Jersey City. Driving in takes an hour, if you catch the PATH train, it takes 15 minutes and costs $2.75. We walked around the city with friends who work there. They are electricians, so they know all the ins and outs of the area. It’s so strange to me that there are 6 stories of infrastructure below the street level. The new subway station/mall at the WTC is amazing.

Paula, the boys and the doggies are back home. I left Thursday and they would’ve missed 4 days of school if they accompanied me. Not that they’d mind but they miss days here and there for other reasons so it was a no go. Plus we would’ve had to kennel two dogs which is pricey even in Hermon, Maine.

Sorry for the rude question. It is a H2 tradition.
You will love this place.

Just be aware of a few things:
MJ has a bad habit of running amok on the blog and crashing into people’s knees.
When pupster gives you something, he expects you to throw it so he can chase.
XBrad is a heavy breather.

Welcome Peaches. Feel free to add your bullshit comments here and let the good times roll. There’s a lot of collective wisdom here and I learn new stuff every day. Prior to reading this site I had no idea what a blumpkin was for example. Or spatchcocking.

Welcome, Peaches.
Sorry for the rude question. It is a H2 tradition.
You will love this place.
Just be aware of a few things:
MJ has a bad habit of running amok on the blog and crashing into people’s knees.
When pupster gives you something, he expects you to throw it so he can chase.
XBrad is a heavy breather.

Tushar poats really disturbing and gross links without warning.

Honest Question: Is peaches the first newbie to show up here without at least one bullwhip up their ass?

Yeah, on the news I saw some town in western MA got a foot. I thought that was a lot. My friend’s step-mother texted him yesterday from the Berkshires and she had about 5″ on he ground, no power and more snow falling. That’s bullshit man!

Just got a new server online, old one has been down for a few weeks. Have to manually recreate the data base, I don’t trust the old machine to not FUBAR the new one with teh bad datas.

The software company and network admins are flummoxed about the whole thing. Took me with boots on the ground and new hardware to get the site back. Still don’t know why the old machine shit the bed but at this point I just want to start fresh.

If Trump wants the media to play fair, he should do one thing: All big news channels are ownned by big movie studios. Make life hell for them. Through FBI, taxpayers spend a lot of money safeguarding Hollywood’s lucrative copyrights. Pull their entire LA staff and redeploy them to fight terrorism. Let the studios bleed a bit as bootlegs DVDs proliferate.

Art post scheduled for 6am tomorrow. You do not want to miss this one.

dinner with Tom Hill went ewxactly how you would imagine a dinner with Tom Hill would go. He was obnoxious, kept leaping from the table to go say hi to someone, leaving his wife behind, complained constantly about the service (which, admittedly, wasn’t the best), throwing business cards around like confetti and kept yelling at the band like he was a member.

On the plus side, he did pay and his wife is absolutely charming and quite easy on the eyes. I could see her exasperation as Hill acted like Hill. It was kind of sad.

The reason you can’t (thus far) get a la carte cable teevee is because the bundles serve to insulate money-losing channels from going under. Do you never, ever, EVAR watch Bravo or OWN or the Knitting Channel or Pantomime Network? Tough shit. You get them with the channels you want because they have to be subsidized for some byzantine reason.

Reportedly, Amazon Prime is in talks to carry sports live with NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.

Good bye ESPN.

J’Ames is right about how much that would cost. The other thing about that is that sports programming has gotten a lot more complicated with the rise of team-specific channels like the one that carries all the Lakers and Dodgers games here in SoCal. I don’t see how Amazon gets a piece of that.